Jonny Niesche
Aura Panels

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Franz-Josefs-Kai 3 | 3rd floor | Suite 16 | 1010 Vienna

Steered by the visual metrics of the Glam Rock era and cosmetic counter culture, Jonny Niesche (*1972 in Sydney) creates sublime paintings, sculptures, and installations that wrestle with the perception of color, surface, and spatiality.

In the 1980s, as a young boy, Niesche would often accompany his mother as she was shopping through the makeup and cosmetics sections of department stores. Niesche’s early fixation with pigment swatches, powder-coated layers, and glitter continues throughout his oeuvre today. In many of his recent works he pays sensual homage to idols of the Glam Rock era such as Debbie Harry from the band Blondie or David Bowie, by way of exploring visual details of their attire and make-up and turning them into signature colour palettes as a template for specific work-cycles.

Fundamental to Niesche?s practice is the ?performative? contemplation of surface, colour, depth, and motion, as can be experienced also in the presented series of works.
 
Coinciding with the show, gallery Zeller van Almsick are opening Yung & Concerned with Sophie Gogl, at the same address.